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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.
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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
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Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.
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Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.
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Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.
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Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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In all the silent manliness of grief.
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And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.
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Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.
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I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.
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A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
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Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.
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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.
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